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| author | Craig Scott <craig.scott@crascit.com> | 2019-06-03 12:17:42 (GMT) |
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| committer | Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com> | 2019-06-03 12:18:02 (GMT) |
| commit | 18d6bdb42d6fceb2b753430e74a4d6076e321f03 (patch) | |
| tree | 39f3c6b905d9b8f26035fe46699c8379d49a60a8 /Help | |
| parent | 7dae93b4053812d344a80918a8c1c05600800c21 (diff) | |
| parent | 4127f82179acb13746c6249dd420ffa8b4abeb72 (diff) | |
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Merge topic 'add_library_unknown'
4127f82179 add_library: Document UNKNOWN type of imported targets
Acked-by: Kitware Robot <kwrobot@kitware.com>
Merge-request: !3346
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diff --git a/Help/command/add_library.rst b/Help/command/add_library.rst index b42fe42..7274e44 100644 --- a/Help/command/add_library.rst +++ b/Help/command/add_library.rst @@ -94,6 +94,12 @@ The most important properties are: See documentation of the ``IMPORTED_*`` and ``INTERFACE_*`` properties for more information. +An ``UNKNOWN`` library type is typically only used in the implementation of +:ref:`Find Modules`. It allows the path to an imported library (often found +using the :command:`find_library` command) to be used without having to know +what type of library it is. This is especially useful on Windows where a +static library and a DLL's import library both have the same file extension. + Object Libraries ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ |